Navigating the world of puzzles is no easy matter: one can become lost in the jungle of books, websites, dealers, and designers… especially since many good references are in English. Here is an extremely selective overview, far from exhaustive.
An essential website for every fan of polyhedral dissections: Puzzleword.
The following monographs are worth seeking out:
• The Chinese Cross. Arthur Cross and Bill Cuttler, Pentangle, 1979.
• "From Burr to Berrocal". Martin Gardner, in Penroses Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers, Mathematical Association of America, 1997.
• Pentaminoes. Solomon Wolf Golomb, Scribner's Publishers, 1965.
Enthusiasts will find the following additional references useful:
• Professor Hoffman's Puzzles Old and New. Angelo John Lewis, Warne, 1893 (reissued by Horden, 1993).
• Wood Design and Burr Puzzles. Anthony Filipiak, in Mathematical Puzzles, Bell Publishing, 1942.
• Puzzles Old and New, How to Make and Solve Them. Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans, Plenary Publishing, 1986.
• New Book of Puzzles, 101 Classic and Modern Puzzles to Make and Solve. Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans, Freeman, 1992.
Finally, pentomino aficionados can try to track down the following items:
• Poly-figures. Georges Collombat, Archimède, 2003.
• Pentacubes. Sivy Farhi, Éditions Farhi, 1977.
• Pentacubes. Sivy Farhi, Éditions Fahri, 1981.
• Pentominoes. Jon Millington, Tarquin, 1987.
